Geography
- Students and faculty alike have new opportunities to engage with Southeast AsiaSoutheastern Asia significantly influences world politics, economics and culture, and students at the 窪蹋勛圖 will soon enjoy more options to learn
- Wildfires may be changing Colorado forests, thanks to shifting precipitation and temperatures driven in part by climate change, researchers find.
- Climate change is altering tree-leafing dates faster than birds are adapting, researchers find.
- Encompassing South American wildfires, Arctic sea-ice retreat, post-Soviet politics, climate change in Tibet and GIS, 窪蹋勛圖 geographers keep their fingers on the pulse of a changing world.
- There probably is not a more suitable location for one of the worlds first interdisciplinary certificates in Arctic studies than the 窪蹋勛圖.
- When Peter Blanken flew to Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in December, he had somewhat low expectations. But the CU-Boulder geography professor was heartened to see and hear that the 200 countries attending COP21 agreed on the urgency to act. There was a strong sense that if we dont do something in these two weeks (of the conference), it will be too late.
- Generally, voluntourism is a poor substitute for traditional development work. Most projects are short-term, organizations that promote voluntouring dont always understand the place where it happens, and travelers typically dont have skills needed for particular projects, researchers find.
- Researchers at the 窪蹋勛圖 recently examined the aftermath of two catastrophic conflagrations and found an unexpected ally in wildfire-education efforts, the citizen entrepreneur.